A petition for his parents to be allowed to come to the UK has more than 80,000 signatures.

The petition was set up by family friend Mirna Suleiman, 26, who had been ringing around numerous hospitals, rest centres and the casualty helpline searching for Mr Alhajali, before discovering that he had died.

“My mum told me and I just burst in to tears. Even though I didn’t know him it was so difficult to bear the news,” she said.

Ms Suleiman said she started the campaign because, as someone with Syrian family herself, she knew how difficult it was to obtain a visa for visits.

The proportion of visa applications for visits to the UK from Syria that are rejected has risen since the country’s civil war began in 2011.

But the Home Office has suggested Mr Alhajali’s family will be able to come to the UK on compassionate grounds.

“Mohammed undertook a dangerous journey to flee war and death in Syria, only to meet it here in the UK, in his own home,” the Syrian Solidarity Campaign said in a statement.

“His dream was to be able to go back home one day and rebuild Syria.”

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A Home Office spokeswoman said: “We have established processes in place which allow us to consider visa applications outside the immigration rules on compassionate grounds.

“We are in contact with Mr Alhajali’s family and will offer any assistance we can to help them obtain the necessary travel documents they will require in these terribly sad circumstances.”

Ms Suleiman said she was happy with the outcome, but added: “It shouldn’t reach a point where people are dying [before] we can allow families to be reunited with one another.”